“Maker Faire Bay Area is particularly famous for exhibiting art installations that premiered at Burning Man,” says NK Guy, recalling Neverwas Haul, part steam train part Victorian house, and The Serpent Mother, a huge mechanical snake skeleton coiled around her egg, by Flaming Lotus Girl, a (mixed) artist collective working with kinetics, pyrotechnics, robotics and electronics. In the U.S., these two communities have already been cohabiting for a long time. We were less interested in its rock’n’roll aspect than in building a city.” Second, because “Both Burning Man and Maker Faire are about building, installing and disassembling. First, because it’s the very same technical team- the infamous DPW (Department of Public Works)-that builds both the temporary city of Black Rock and Maker Faire San Francisco. Pierre Orefice, director of Les Machines de l’Île, considers the link to be evident. Weaving in and out of the legs of Kumo, the giant spider of Les Machines de l’Île, were two mobile fire-breathing sculptures measuring over 15 meters long entitled The Serpent Twins, created in 2011 by desert lunatics Jon Sarriugarte and Kyrsten Mate. In France, it was at Maker Faire Nantes last July that makers and burners officially collaborated for the first time. The two communities do have much in common-both were born in the San Francisco Bay Area, are tech-savvy and committed to recycling, clean energy, collaborative learning and do-it-together. Now a member of the Make Magazine team after working at the festival for 13 years, he writes: “Maker Faire is the closest thing to Burning Man I’ve experienced, only with less dust and more pants.” French burners début in Nantes In 2007, MIT’s mobile fablab came to the playa, and last year, David Best partnered with the Nerve Center fablab in Northern Irland to build a temple inspired by Burning Man, along with 20 volunteers.īut is Burning Man THE rendez-vous for makers? According to NK Guy, “In a way, aspects of Burning Man are a family-friendlier Survival Research Labs, and aspects of Maker Faire are a suburban-friendly Burning Man.” Will Chase also makes the connection between the festival and the annual meeting of makers. Makers give Burning Man artists the tools and the workshops they need.” Burners and makers are passionate about each other. Most constructions are built in local fablabs before being disassembled and transported to the playa, says Laurent Garcia, who points out that a large number of fab managers are also burners: “Burners build devices for living on the playa, such as generators. Since 2000, this will be eighth and last temple built on the sand of Black Rock City by the American sculptor. © Big ImaginationĪlso in preparation for this year’s edition: The Space Whale, a life-size whale and its baby made of glass David Best’s temple made of reclaimed wood, which Marie and Laurent are helping to build.
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They have learned about safety procedures, how to disassemble and fabricate wood, steel, aluminum, wires, LEDs, and so much more, and again for the very first time.” Volunteers on the site of the 747 Project. Many of them have come to use tools, power tools, and other tools for the very first time. One of the highlights is a project by the Big Imagination foundation to bring a Boeing 747 to the playa and transform it into a giant “art car”, the vehicles that populate Burning Man.įollowing a post regarding the installation (initially planned for the 2015 edition), burner Jet Burns describes the making of this crazy installation: “There are over a hundred people that have come to work on this Burning Man 747 Project.
“There will be crazy mechanical installations that use wind and solar power,” Marie continues. This year, burners are invited to build on Leonardo da Vinci. Non-official map of camps at Burning Man 2016: From fablab to playa “The majority of the camps arrive at the beginning of the event, and everything must be built from there.” So those with art projects arrive on the playa early, looking for willing volunteers to integrate their team, she says.
“Everything is interactive,” says Marie, aka P’tite Lutine, member of the French burner community and co-founder with Laurent Garcia of Playa Provides, an organization that connects artists to Burning Man. “Just as maker groups hold workshops and classes on learning about tools, techniques, and hacking methodology, so Burning Man artists teach others how to make art.”Īt Burning Man, everyone is an active partipant-it’s one of the 10 principles of the festival. Burning Man has a very “maker” way of working, observes photographer and writer NK Guy, author of Art of Burning Man, published by Taschen in 2015, representing 16 years of photography in the temporary Black Rock City.
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